New features in this release
- Details of all the major changes since 2.3.2 can be found in Audacity Release Notes 2.3.3.
Contents
- Nyquist Effects now translatable.
- Spectrogram and Wave of same audio shown in the same track.
- It can already be done by scriptables, for mono, but is a hacky approach.
Maintenance release
2.3.3 is a maintenance release to reorganize the structure of the underlying code. This is so that we can make better changes for the user experience in the future.
There are almost no new or changed features in this release. However, we have fixed quite a few long standing bugs, at the same time as making the restructuring. We are also taking the opportunity to retire some features which are better done by other approaches.
End-of-life retired functionality
For this maintenance release we have decided to withdraw some pieces of functionaality which are considered to be no longer useful or relevant.
Nyquist Workbench End of Life
The optional module Nyquist Workbench has been declared obsolete for version 2.3.3 onwards.
We plan to replace it later with a modern alternative Nyquist IDE. A lot of the important functionality is already built into the Nyquist prompt in Audacity.
Vocal Remover End of Life
We have finally decided to no longer ship the legacy effect Vocal Remover with Audacity. It has been superseded for a while now by the newer and more powerful Vocal Reduction and Isolation effect. We upgraded the effect slightly with this release, so that it now can also do exactly what the old effect did.
New users who install 2.3.3 as their first Audacity will not see Vocal Remover in the effect menu. Upgraders from earlier versions of Audacity will still find this legacy effect in their effects list (because it was supplied as a Nyquist plug-in). If you no longer wish to see it in the Effect menu simply mark it as Disabled in the Plug-in Manager.
On-Demand loading of aliased files End of Life
Audacity previously had a feature where Audacity projects could depend on wav audio files that were stored outside the Audacity project and folder. This saved space but was rather dangerous, as the project could become unusable if the files were moved or renamed.
The space saving made some sense back in 1999 when disk storage was more expensive. Nowadays it does not make sense. It causes far more problems than the space saving is worth. Previously we had defaults set to always copy audio into projects, and not try and save space. Now we have removed the option of this ill advised space saving. Audacity will still work with old projects that do this, but for new projects audio will always be copied in.
Normalize on Load feature
Audacity previously had a 'mis-feature' called 'Normalize on Load' which gave the option of always normalizing newly imported audio (an option that was settable in preferences). Normalizing or alternatively compression should usually only be done as one of the last steps in producing audio, for example if one knows the audio is destined to go into an mp3 file or CD.
Equalization Effect now Split
The former Equalization effect has now been split into two separate effects. We did this as part of fixing some bugs with the effect:
Details (and images?) TBP
Bug Fixes
We have fixed many bugs in the course of this maintenance release:
- P4 2138 - Crossfade Tracks effect may desynchronize tracks
- P4 826 - Mis-handling of envelopes when split-deleting, or when cutting with cut lines enabled
- there will be loads ...
Links
> Audacity Release Notes 2.3.3 - detailed release notes for this release of Audacity
